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Soldie

Macb. What soldiers, patch? Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of thine Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face? Serv. The English force, so please you.

Mach. Take thy face hence. - Seyton ! - I am sick at

When 1 behold-Seyton, I say! This push
Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now.
I have liv'd long enough: my way of life
Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf:
And that which should accompany old age,
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have; but, in their stead,
Curses not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath,
Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not.
Seyton -

Enter SEYTΟΝ.

What news

Sey. What is your gracious pleasure ?
Macb.
Sey. All is confirm'd, my lord, which was reported.
Macb. I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hack"

Give me my armor.

Sey.

'Tis not needed yet.

Macb. I'll put it on.

Send out more horses, skirr the country round;

Hang those that talk of fear. Give me mine armor,

How does your patient, doctor?

Doct.

Not so sick, my lo

Cure her of that:

As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies,
That keep her from her rest.

Macb.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;

Bring it after me.

d of death and bane,
t come to Dunsinane.

SCENE IV.

atry near Dunsinane: A Wood in view.

[Exit.

es and colors, MALCOLM, Old SIWARD, and his Son, CENTETH, CATHNESS, ANGUS, LENOX, ROSSE, and

ching.

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And beat them backward home. What is that noise

[A cry wi

Sey. It is the cry of women, my good lord.
Macb. I have almost forgot the taste of fears :
The time has been, my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir
As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaught'rous thoughts,
Cannot once start me. - Wherefore was that cry?
Sey. The queen, my lord, is dead.

Macb. She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.-
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle !
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.-

Enter a Messenger.

Thou com'st to use thy tongue; thy story quickly.

Mess. Gracious my lord,

I shall report that which I say I saw,

But know not how to do it.
Macb.

Mess. As I did stand my
I look'd toward Birnam, and
The wood began to move.

Well, say, sir. watch upon the hill, anon, methought,

ell:-blow wina: come, wrack! with harness on our back.

[Exeunt.

Followers to the Battle, which terminates in the defeat of the Macduff, and Malcolm is declared King of Scotland,

AS YOU LIKE IT.

Shakspeare took the plot of this delightful comedy from a novel called, "Rosalynde, or Enphues' Golden Legacy," written by Lodge, who borrowed his materials from an old English poem, of the age of Chaucer.

Our Feet has improved upon his model, and has constructed one of the most exquisitely finished Pastoral Poems extant in our language.

The Plot and leading incidents of the Comedy, will be clearly illustrated in the selected scenes we have given.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

DUKE, living in exile.

FREDERICK, brother to the Duke, and usurper of his dominions.
AMIENS, JAQUES, Lords attending on the Duke in his banishment.

LE BEAU, a courtier attending upon Frederick.

CHARLES, his wrestler.

OLIVER, JAQUES, ORLANDO, sons of Sir Rowland de Bois.

ADAM, DENNIS, servants to Oliver.

TOUCHSTONE, a clown.

Sir OLIVER MARTEXT, a vicar.

CORIN, SILVIUS, shepherds.

WILLIAM, a country fellow, in love with Audrey.

A Person representing Hymen.

ROSALIND, daughter to the banished Duke.

CELIA, daughter to Frederick.

PHEBE, a shepherdess.

AUDREY, a country girl.

Lords belonging to the two Dukes; Pages, Foresters, and other

Attendants.

The SCENE lies, first, near OLIVER's House ; afterwards partly in the Usurper's Court and partly in the Forest of ARDEN.

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